Weloganite (fine crystals)

Item Description

Weloganite is an ultra rare, strontium, sodium, zirconium carbonate and this showy and excellent specimen is from the famous Type Locality - the now-closed Francon Quarry in Montreal, Quebec. Isolated and clustered, hour glass-shaped, layered, translucent, grayish-white to amber, crystals to 1.1 cm are aesthetically set in the drusy quartz-lined vug in sculptural matrix. The floor of the 5.3 cm vug is richly covered with many smaller weloganite crystals. This extremely rare species is known at its best from a very few pockets at this cement quarry, which has incredibly strange chemistry and has produced a number of such rarities IN THE PAST. Not available now, except from advanced recycled collections.